Think back to your 80’s childhood and remember the things you used to play with and watch, I’ll bet plenty of them aren’t around today. Happy memories of long forgotten toys and TV probably make you feel nostalgic. Are you happy to see the back of them or do you wish some of them were still around?
Technically the first soda stream was invented in 1903 but it wasn’t till the 1980’s that everyone wanted to make their own fizzy pop. A SodaStream was the handy little machine that allowed you to make your own fizzy drinks at home. As fun as it was at the time you have to admit it really as a lot of effort and expense when it really would have been easier to just go down the shop and by the readymade stuff in the first place.
Half a dozen walking talking cats, and evil mummy and a planet called Third Earth. If you know this is the plot to Thundercats you are definitely a child of the eighties, or at least a sci-fi fanatic. Thundercats was one of the most iconic cartoons of the 1980’s to hit your televisions and featured a lion, tiger, cheater, panther and two small cat like creatures. Every week millions of kids would tune in to watch these charismatic cats defend the Eye of Thundera from the forces of evil.
In the evening you can probably flick through hundreds of channels and still decide there’s nothing on. Between all these channels they’ll show just about everything from every genre all round the world and play all day and all night. Unfortunately it wasn’t always this way. How many children of the 80’s remember the little blond girl playing noughts and crosses with her creepy little clown?. They didn’t officially get rid of this test card until BBC started broadcasting round the clock in 1997. Back in the 80’s (and the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 90’s) most children would wake up in the mornings to be greeted by this girl when they turned their televisions on.
